diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c1c4c60341..a2a6a3fb92 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-04-25  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>
+
+	* plug-in/common/tiff.c: Only store compression types we can actually
+	handle in the save options parasite. Fixes bug #301557.
+
 2005-04-24  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* app/base/temp-buf.c (generate_unique_tmp_filename): removed the
diff --git a/plug-ins/common/tiff.c b/plug-ins/common/tiff.c
index 3ddf5e57f6..4d604e3e53 100644
--- a/plug-ins/common/tiff.c
+++ b/plug-ins/common/tiff.c
@@ -700,7 +700,22 @@ load_image (const gchar *filename)
       if (!TIFFGetField (tif, TIFFTAG_COMPRESSION, &tmp))
         save_vals.compression = COMPRESSION_NONE;
       else
-        save_vals.compression = tmp;
+        {
+          switch (tmp)
+            {
+            case COMPRESSION_NONE:
+            case COMPRESSION_LZW:
+            case COMPRESSION_PACKBITS:
+            case COMPRESSION_DEFLATE:
+            case COMPRESSION_JPEG:
+              save_vals.compression = tmp;
+              break;
+
+            default:
+              save_vals.compression = COMPRESSION_NONE;
+              break;
+            }
+        }
 
       parasite = gimp_parasite_new ("tiff-save-options", 0,
                                     sizeof (save_vals), &save_vals);